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freckles_and_doubtI should be marking third-year essays on vampires. Instead, I'm cruising the internet looking for distraction, a technique doomed to success. This follows an entire weekend spent reading highly eroticised Spike/Buffy fanfic. I plead extenuating circumstances. Term has just ended, and I have a cold.
Iain Banks talks about his new Culture novel. Also about his hatred for Bush, Blair, and the Iraq war. Lovely quote from his new mainstream novel: "The USA is a great country full of great people. It's just their propensity as a whole for electing idiots and then conducting a foreign policy of the utmost depravity that I object to." Oh, yeah.
I always found Geoffrey Chaucer's Blog a bit, I dunno, twee? Then they published LOLPilgrims.
This one, in particular (it's the Pardoner) is such a complex piece of cultural layering, and speaks with such horrible truth to the academic experience, that I laughed until I choked. On quick review I'm not sure anyone else who reads this blog will necessarily appreciate all the layers, which are very English-geek heavy, but allow me my moment of isolate glee.
A World Without Oil. This is a newish acronym to me, an ARG - Alternate Reality Game. It's a strange, bizarre, fascinating concept.
On the wabbage front, non-befriended readers may have noticed the random blog redesign. Judgements welcome, I'm not sure I'm happy with it, and have every intention of frittering away a goodly part of the afternoon with more fiddling.
Iain Banks talks about his new Culture novel. Also about his hatred for Bush, Blair, and the Iraq war. Lovely quote from his new mainstream novel: "The USA is a great country full of great people. It's just their propensity as a whole for electing idiots and then conducting a foreign policy of the utmost depravity that I object to." Oh, yeah.
I always found Geoffrey Chaucer's Blog a bit, I dunno, twee? Then they published LOLPilgrims.
This one, in particular (it's the Pardoner) is such a complex piece of cultural layering, and speaks with such horrible truth to the academic experience, that I laughed until I choked. On quick review I'm not sure anyone else who reads this blog will necessarily appreciate all the layers, which are very English-geek heavy, but allow me my moment of isolate glee.
A World Without Oil. This is a newish acronym to me, an ARG - Alternate Reality Game. It's a strange, bizarre, fascinating concept.
On the wabbage front, non-befriended readers may have noticed the random blog redesign. Judgements welcome, I'm not sure I'm happy with it, and have every intention of frittering away a goodly part of the afternoon with more fiddling.
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Date: Monday, 28 May 2007 08:35 pm (UTC)The Chaucer is so far over my head - even if I grow like Topsy, I'm not going to get it....
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Date: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 08:57 am (UTC)The Chaucer is not about Chaucer so much, it's about Judith Butler, who's currently an incredibly fashionable feminist theorist who deals with gender and performativity (gender roles are self-consciously performed constructs rather than innate qualities). I've just spent a month wrestling her into my Carter chapter; she's applied to the Pardoner's Tale particularly because it's highly susceptible to a queer theory reading. The essay block quote bit is beautifully dual, being about both the fashionability and density of Butler, and about student essay writing short cuts.